REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 95 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



During the twenty-one days the 6 pigs consumed 189 pounds of meal (i com, ^ 

 oats, pease and barley equal parts), at 90 cents per cwt., $1.70, while the meat produced 

 valued at current prices ($6.25 per cwt.), was worth $12.31, leaving a balance of $10.61 

 for the sixteenth of an acre of artichokes. Putting this in another way we have 197 

 pounds pork produced at a cost as follows : — 



189 pounds meal at 90 cents $ 1 70 



One-sixteenth acre artichokes cost for seed $ 50 



For planting, &c 1 00 



Rent, $5 per acre 35 



1 85 



Net cost $ 2 55 



That is one pound of pork produced at a cost of 1 -8 cents. 



This tuber may be sown in the autumn and will then start to grow early the next 

 year, or the crop may be left unharvested till the ensuing spring and the pigs allowed 

 to root them out as soon as the frost comes out. 



SUMMARY. 



The following tables of cost of production of (1) a ton of stored forage or threshed 

 grain, and (2) 100 pounds of digestible dry matter are submitted with the end in 

 view of showing the comparative cost of producing each if not generally at least in 

 one instance : — 





3 



55 



.3 

 4 

 5 

 6 



7 

 8 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 I2 

 13 

 14 

 1.^ 

 16 



(1). Cost of producing 



1 ton of stored forage O" threshed grain 



in the fo; m of : 



'Corn (ensilage) 



Carrots 



Turnips 



Pea straw . . 



Barley straw 



Sugar beets (for forage) 1 



.t (for sugar) 2 



Oat straw 2 32 



Clover :■! 12 



Mixed hay 4 45 



Oats !) 21 



Barley.. 10 07 



Pease 15 70 



25 

 1 37 

 1 63 

 1 73 

 1 83 

 1 87 



14 



(2). Cost of producing 



100 pounds of digestable dry matter 



as yielded by : 



$ cts. I 



Rape 47 



Pumpkii s 90 



iMangel.s 96 



cts. 



Barley straw 20 



Pea straw 21 



Rape 23 • 5 



Oat .straw 27 



Clover .30- 6 



Mi.xed hay 43 6 



Corn (ensilage) 44 4 



Pumpkins 47 



Sugar beets (for sugar) 48 



Mangels 48 



Sugar beets (for forage). 

 I'arley. . 

 Carrots . 



Oats 



Turnips. 

 Pease . . 



50 

 65 S 

 6S 

 73 



77 

 110.2 



In tpeaking ( f the compa'ative cost of the above, both as stored material and as 

 digestible dry matter, it is not attempting to differentiate their feeding values. It 

 will not of course be understood that because a cvtain forage is produced at a small 

 co.st it will pay to feed or grow only that variety. Frequently when a form of digesti- 

 ble dry ma ter can be produced cheaply it is of a character to necessitate the addition 

 of fome more expensive material before being fed. An example of such a case would 

 be afforded by barley straw which produced digestible dry matter at a cost of 20 cents 

 per 100 pounds, which if fed exclusively would result in practically starving the 

 animal, while a small addition of pea meal would make tb© ration a fairly good one. 



